Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 08:08:39 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libcam camlib.h Message-ID: <97287.1019628519@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 2002 13:04:49 %2B0700." <20020424130449.A34334@regency.nsu.ru>
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In message <20020424130449.A34334@regency.nsu.ru>, Alexey Dokuchaev writes: >On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:02:57PM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 16:58:21 -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote: >> > obrien 2002/04/23 16:58:21 PDT >> > >> > Modified files: >> > lib/libcam camlib.h >> > Log: >> > Do not +1 with MAXPATHLEN. >> >> Why not? What about the terminating NUL? > >Quite off-topic, but still worth mentioning ;-) > >Why people refer to '\0' as ``NUL'' but not ``NULL'' ?? >NUL is a bogus "device" thingy under Billy's early OSes. NUL is the original name for the first position in the ASCII table, way before Bill had learned to code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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